A few years ago, I setup a newsletter called Hello Humans. It ran for about a year and boasted 150 or so subscribers. But the need to be able to feed myself ate into the time I was able to devote to it, and it fell by the wayside.

Since then I have had some initial success finding publishers for my work, which is largely devoted to critically examining the history and evolution of public discourse in respect to the ‘new economy’. I am working on a book and podcast which critically assesses our emotional investment in fundamental economic myths & their connection to the Global Financial Crisis and the rising social tensions escalating across the globe. I also work about 25 different freelance gigs to support myself which include copywriting, ghostwriting, speech-writing and consulting, leaving me not a lot of time to ensure the book gets out. #Diversification.

This project is all about data and choice and building a model that gets out of people’s way. If it goes well, I can use the insights from this experiment to help publishers understand what people want (and how much of their audience I have stolen over the years ;p). I have no doubt I’ll make some mistakes along the way; I will be adapting the model as I learn. The content may differ, some columns will be more researched than others. I will try to keep a nice variation of the humorous, the serious and the personal (so don’t expect the level of research that went into Edition #1 every week). But the objective will never change: Making sense of the world around us. Helping readers identify rhetorical red flags and immunise themselves against bullshit linguistics and manipulation.

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